Data Protection Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Protection
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Protection over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 51 71
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Protection 36 81 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.76% 3.66% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 4.18% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 49 81
10th Percentile £125 £288 £325
25th Percentile £200 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -32.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £441 £631 £538
90th Percentile £550 £678 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £32.25 -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £38.02 £35.00
% change year-on-year -48.70% +8.61% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Protection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Protection in the West Midlands

Data Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Protection in the West Midlands

Data Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Protection in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Protection in the West Midlands

Data Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Protection in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Protection in the West Midlands

Data Protection
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Protection within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -10 21 £425 -18.07% 13
Staffordshire +12 7 £125 -66.67% 6
Shropshire -2 2 £200 -38.46%
Worcestershire +3 1 £550 - 1
Coventry +1 1 £475 +18.75% 5
Solihull -13 1 - - 2
Data Protection
England

Data Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) CMS
4 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.78%) SAP HCM
1 1 (2.78%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) LAN
1 3 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.78%) SDH
3 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.78%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.78%) DB2
3 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.78%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.78%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (16.67%) Legal
2 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Marketing
3 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.78%) Aeronautics
4 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (13.89%) Developer
2 4 (11.11%) Data Protection Advisor
3 3 (8.33%) Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Exchange Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Lead
4 2 (5.56%) SharePoint Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Test Manager
4 2 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI Consultant
5 1 (2.78%) Security Incident Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) Guice
2 1 (2.78%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (11.11%) Housing Association
3 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.67%) Migration
2 5 (13.89%) Agile
3 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 3 (8.33%) SDLC
3 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (8.33%) Time Management
4 2 (5.56%) Analytics
4 2 (5.56%) CI/CD
4 2 (5.56%) Data Integration
4 2 (5.56%) Data Modelling
4 2 (5.56%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.56%) OO
4 2 (5.56%) OOD
4 2 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (5.56%) Project Delivery
4 2 (5.56%) Project Management
4 2 (5.56%) Scrum
4 2 (5.56%) Software Architecture
4 2 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Java
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) Perl
3 1 (2.78%) C#
3 1 (2.78%) COBOL
3 1 (2.78%) PHP
3 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) SCCM
1 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.78%) Kibana
2 1 (2.78%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) IBM
1 2 (5.56%) Marketo
1 2 (5.56%) SAP
1 2 (5.56%) VMware
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) ICL
2 1 (2.78%) Juniper
2 1 (2.78%) McAfee
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.78%) Nokia
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.78%) Splunk